Art Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) - and arriving…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Either history is really governed by laws, and in that case a truly human-activity is impossible, except perhaps in a technical sense; or human…

— Cornelius Castoriadis

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“We shall not understand the history of men and of other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied,…

— Benedetto Croce

“The rational study of law is still to a large extent the study of history. History must be a part of the study, because…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers.…

— Niall Ferguson

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because…

— Isaac Asimov

Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy,…

— Vilfredo Pareto

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

— Benedetto Croce

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

“History may not be a very practical study, but it teaches some useful lessons, one of which is that nothing is accidental, and that…

— Brooks Adams

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence…

— Kenneth Clark